Philippine Ethnography

E. I agreed most to Lopez-Jaena. I agreed most on his view on post-colonial Philippines where he favored revolution for freedom to be attained. Reforms maybe is effective it will never reach the point where the friars or Spain would give total freedom to the Filipinos. Only through blood where the winner will gets what he want. Freedom can only be attained if you beat the colonizers.

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A. The author’s objective is to answer the question: What did the Spaniards actually say about the Filipino people when they first met them? To answer the question, the book shows the Philippine ethnography which is based on contemporaneous sources. (Scott, W.H.. (1994). Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society. Manila: Ateneo University Press.)

B. The barangay society was the earliest form of government. It was an independent settlement consisting of thirty to one hundred families usually situated along a river bank or at the mouth of a river spilling out to the sea. Each barangay was ruled by a Datu which the title is gained through inheritance.

D. Archeology can help the nationalist in several ways. It can literally create a past - real or imagined - that justifies a national claim to territory. It can create a "how great we once were" mentality that increases social cohesion or the desire to sacrifice for the nation. (“Archaeology meets politics”. (2002). Retrieved December 3, 2015, from http://whyfiles.org/155war_archeo/3.html. )

E. Yes. Despite of those challenges the country face, we should still allocate a portion of nation’s money to archaeological researches. Archaeological researches provides information and actual things that had been made or used by the ancient people living on the Philippines. Those things represent our ancient culture and by allotting efforts on recovering them, we show one way of loving the country. The results of those researches shows the rich culture of our ancestors and it is just right for us to recover